A best man speech writer — without the £300 invoice.

A professional speech writer runs a process: a questionnaire or interview to mine you for stories, a structural draft, one or two revision rounds, and delivery notes. It's a real skill, and it produces real results.

It also costs £150–£400 per speech in the UK, takes one to two weeks of back-and-forth, and books out months before peak wedding season. If your wedding is in August and you're reading this in July, most writers can't take you.

• Write it yourself from scratch. Free, but you're staring at a blank page, and most people's first draft is either an inside-joke minefield or a list of adjectives. Works if you start four weeks out and can get honest feedback.
• Hire a professional writer. Great result if you have £300 and a month of lead time. You'll spend an hour on their questionnaire either way.
• Use a speech writer that builds from your memories. You give it the raw material — real moments, real names, real lines he's said — and it handles structure, pacing and the toast. Minutes, not weeks. £19 for the full speech.

1. Share a memory. One is enough. A night out, a habit of his, the moment he told you about her. Just type it the way you'd tell it down the pub.
2. Get a free draft in 90 seconds. A real, speakable speech built from what you wrote — not a fill-in-the-blanks template.
3. Unlock the full speech to weave in more. Up to five memories total, restructured into one arc with a proper tribute and toast.
4. Edit and regenerate. Too soft? Too edgy? Add memories or tweak the tone and rebuild. Your previous version is kept, so nothing is lost.
5. Print the cue cards. Bold-text emphasis and pause cues, so delivery is as rehearsed as the writing.

""He once apologised to a waiter for the waiter being slow." — that single line became the emotional turn of a speech about a groom who's polite to a fault, and finally found someone worth being demanding for."

Every "best man speech template" on the internet produces the same speech: a generic joke, two generic compliments, a quote from Pinterest. The room has heard it a hundred times.

The speeches rooms remember are specific. The four-hour drive. The terrible playlist. The way he rehearses what he's going to order before the waiter arrives. That specificity can't be templated — it has to come from you.

So we made the writer take the memories as input, not optional decoration. It's the difference between a speech that could belong to anyone and one that could only belong to you.

• Free draft — a genuine 90-second speech from one memory. No card, no signup fee.
• Full speech (£19 one-off) — 700–1,000 words woven from up to five memories, edit and regenerate as much as you like.
• Lifetime (£29 one-off) — unlimited speeches, ever. Come back for the next wedding, the retirement do, the 30th birthday.
• Printable cue cards — with emphasis markers and pause cues.

If the free draft isn't good, you've lost 90 seconds and nothing else. That's the whole risk.